Opinion | Newmann: Cyber forms

There are times when filling out a form the old-fashioned way — on paper with a pen — seems more personal than filling out the same form on a computer. But here we are, in a cyber universe, with pen and paper gradually becoming relics of the past. Seems like most forms are now filled out digitally. So you have to create user names and passwords to enter whatever web portals you need to get into to find the forms you need to fill out. And, in the process, you often have to go through the indignity of being asked, “Are you human?” By a non-human cyber entity. Then, to make sure that you’re a real live person, a bunch of pictures pop up on the screen and you might be asked to identify which of the pictures are cows. If you have somehow managed to identify these animals correctly, you may be directed to hit “continue” — and find yourself in the website where the forms you’re supposed to fill out reside.

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